EarthRise Rolling Haiku Collaborative 2019

Welcome to the largest collaborative poem on the internet. The United Nations has designated 2019 as the Year of Indigenous Languages. Plan to share one poem or many in the world’s largest collaborative poem! Please add your poem(s) in the Comment box below, ideally at dawn at your location, but any time that you are able. The timeline for this begins at 12:01 A.M. on April 17 on the International Date Line (which is why it seems to have started the day before, for many of us). Your poem(s) can respond to the “seed” poem:

FUJI CONCEALED IN A MIST.*
Into a sea of mist whither hath Mt. Fuji sunk?

or to any of the poems posted in the Comment box, or you can even start a new thread. You may participate as often as you like. All we ask is that you respond to the theme at hand.

Enjoy!

[*This poem, included in W. G. Aston’s Grammar of the Japanese Written Language (1877) without ascription, is possibly the first haiku ever written in English — indigenous language indeed! Of course since that time we have come to quite a different understanding of what makes an indigenous language, and how endangered many of them are . . .]

Web link includes a photo when Karen worked in the Serengeti:http://reasonablyadjustedtv.com/2016/01/
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This Lion Country
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Serengeti dryness
the gurgling call
of a cape crow
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Kilimanjaro
looking for the peak
and then looking higher
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Gol Mountains Masai
our only common language
wildebeest grunts
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open plains
giraffes in the last light
the longest shadows
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night flight––
flamingo call
on the moon
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trying hard to sleep––
a single gazelle being eaten
on both sides of the tent
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yellow flowers
to the horizon
this lion country
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clipped green grass––
jasmine scrambles
over the kopje
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long after the leopard
I see spots
in the bushes
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long dry season
the last flower
a baboon snack
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Actually at least 400 arrests of people bringing the attention of serious and dangerous harm being created by practices against natural law.
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There seems to be a worrying bias against all of this bringing alarming practices to the authorities, because so many people in comfy jobs etc… know they are mired in the corruption of it all, and what harm it does to people’s children and grandchildren, as well as the planet.
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As one young woman said, thirty years of polite non-disruptive protest have been basically ignored or glossed over. So thirty years of inaction is having to be addressed more widely and openly. It’s also a cry for getting back some semblance of real democracy.
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Fingers crossed.

tiny Tim
how mole hills
become mountains
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I worked from the last report I’d heard Alan.
It truly is shocking.
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A friend in the mid eighties approached a local councillor with an idea for individual wind turbines to be mounted on all house rooves. He’d already piloted it and was charging enough power to run his lights.
The councillor became an obstruction. I’ve not spoken to him in 20 years so do not know what came of it.
Sadly history shows that Labour have worked to solve a lot of these issues (Not perfect) but more a cohesive direction than the dog eat dog environment we’ve inherited under the current shower.

Hi Robert,
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We have two types of ginko planned.
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No dates, but we are also planning local ginko events as there’s a meadow 2-3 minutes stroll from our house, and a wood, and a long river walk through a park and into the High Street.
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Our guest bedroom isn’t ready yet, but the Best Western Angel Hotel appears to give competitive prices against local B&Bs.
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The Angel Hotel is only five to six minutes stroll from our house. Keep checking our website or if you haven’t, join our newsletter! 🙂
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warm regards,
Alanhttps://www.callofthepage.org/contact/newsletter-sign-up/
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We also love bees!!!

Hi Lovette!!!!!!!!:-)
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Interestingly I filled in the gap where you meant to include ‘morning’ and I think that’s a natural reaction for people to do so. In haiku we write so that we hope readers will fill in gaps too.
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a note of spring-
in dappled light
a young song
travels out
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Lovette Cartier
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A beautiful verse!!! 🙂
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The language of the birds, and even if a dawn chorus might include a few bird varieties of cuss words, it still feels wonderful to our ears: If only human cussing did. 😉

Jan,
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Thank you for commenting on my haiku! I can imagine the Anasazi in their pueblos, voices carrying on the winds. Different dialects echoed by later indigenous tribes in the southwest USA.
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Compliments on your wonderful haiku, and collection!
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Claire Vogel Camargo

the night train passes
along the mountain trail
garlic snores
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Alan Summers
Azami #51 ed. Ikkoku Santo (Japan 1998)
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The Spanish night train, full of strangers, and a heck of a lot of garlic from one geezer.

I was lucky to go on a Bristol University walk with a passionate natural history expert. Myself and Karen were the only haiku writers, and possibly the only writers/poets, even. But it was like a ginko in other regards.
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Essex Skipper:https://www.ukbutterflies.co.uk/species.php?species=lineola

Thank you MIchael! 🙂
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The actual caretakers of the world, and it’s certainly not humans, are often despised. There was a great radio program on flies the other day, and proving that without flies, humans would die out very quickly, as we create so much ‘raw sewage’ to put it delicately.
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And the crow family are also trying to keep up with our obsession with garbage too! 🙂
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I wonder if the actual real caretakers of the planet have a “Cross- indigenous language” so they can work more effectively to slow down the destruction from the humans’ race to both self-destruct and take the planet with them? 😉

the mists of time…
every cliché counted
on an abacus
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Alan Summers
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NOTE:
The abacus, also called a counting frame, is a calculating tool that was in use in Europe, China and Russia, centuries before the adoption of the written Hindu–Arabic numeral system. The exact origin of the abacus is still unknown. Wikipedia

Thank goodness that the awful negative politics has done an HC Andersen, and both boys and girls are now shouting out “The Emperor has no clothes”! 🙂
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Brilliant one line senryu by the way!!! 🙂
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Politicians have robbed us of our indigenous language(s), as well as the sinister shadows behind global corporate entities.
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Sideswipe, or Shining the Bull
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We speak you listen don’t you, don’t you, love me, love me, I am only greed and politics helping you help me.
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sunrise
the gleam of green
being counted
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whatever’s going on this was not the plot of the haiku above not that it matters all that much but>>
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a day at the zoo
inwrapt with the giant
constrictor’s silence

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free speech
as long as the wind still
moves through the pines

and still the music played
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sad day
a race
to save our Lady
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a ring of still
hot footing it
from the belfry
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hired hands
steam cleaning
the sky
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red mist
a stash of cash
misses the void
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white
carnations
how
the
truth
flows
out
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and still the music played

we bargain
by hand signals
the price of travel
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practicing my deepest bow
for my daughter-in-law’s
mother’s visit
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on a warm evening
I spread my fan
mistaken signal
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warning
from the chittering squirrel
hawk shadow
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nose to nose
with my new grandson
his eyes answer
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rain, lluvia or pluie
it falls just as softly
in April
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lost
one death at a time
another language

Note:
The moon was important to Vikings but the sun was the central role. The year was mostly dark
and cold in Scandinavia. The sun brought light and life. When the sun is high we work land to eat and live through “the long night.”

Pitjantjatjara –
stories by the fire
told under stars
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Pitjantjatjara: People of the western and central desert regions and one of over 250 language groups in australia around the time of colonial invasion.

I am not sure why it’s all attached. Here is the original Dutch haiku again. The Netherlands knows and recognizes many dialects. My parents grew up in an area in Holland where they speak Betuws, a South Guelderish dialect which falls under the umbrella of Low Frankish languages. ABN stands for Algemeen Beschaafd Nederlands (Standard Dutch).

familiebijeenkomst—
ABN komt niet verder
dan de voordeur
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family gathering—
Standard Dutch doesn’t make it
past the front door
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Dutch and English versions
By Corine Timmer (2019)
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The Netherlands knows and recognizes many dialects. My parents grew up in an area in Holland where they speak Betuws, a South Guelderish dialect which falls under the umbrella of Low Frankish languages. ABN stands for Algemeen Beschaafd Nederlands (Standard Dutch).

It’s a real pain, but I put a single dot (period, fullstop, endstop symbol) in between to space out certain lines.
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I have seen some people who know how to use HTML code for this blog, and I’m envious as I don’t know how to do it myself. 🙂

🙂 Helen . . . yep 🙂 same with my maternal grandmother (the family had to move from Wales to Liverpool for work, then she came to Australia by herself when she was 18.
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And then there was the other lot.
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the ancestors
mutter their grievances . . .
whiskey moon
.3Lights Journal #1, Jan. 2010

this for fun… and just because 🙂
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soaring buzzard—
what do you see *
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*we don’t know what the bird sees but what the viewer will see mostly depends on where they live:
in Europe it’s a bird of prey
in America it’s a vulture
elsewhere???

Land’s End
I see my voice
in the sea
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Alan Summershttps://www.visitcornwall.com/places/lands-end
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I’ve been fortunate to run haiku workshops from Land’s End (and elsewhere in Cornwall); and other parts of the South of England and all the way up to Aberdeen, Scotland, so far. 🙂

Gol Mountains Maasai –
our only common language
wildebeest grunts
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Karen Hoy
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True story: Each Maasai warrior had a different dialect or language, but everyone knew gnu (Wildebeests) grunts including this author so fluid communication was able to be made. The Gol Mountains are part of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tanzania, Africa

Cleve Backster, ”The Secret Life of Plants”
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Ecologist Suzanne Simard on ”A world of infinite, biological pathways that connect trees and allow them to communicate, and allow the forest to behave as if it’s a
single organism.”

Michael
Happy IHPD
Thank you for your comment above.
Seeing your posts here at first light this morning and above, coupled with other related posts on the wall served to inspire.
The news reveals that donations for the rebuilding of this magnificent structure has exceeded 750,000,000 euros.
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wren
out of a stone
a cathedral

Christopher Wren, an English architect was instrumental in the creation of 52 churches following the great fire of London.circa1666.